Merge branch 'master' into exception_handling

Conflicts:
	tests/fixtures.py

.travis.yml

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+sudo: false
 language: python
 services:
   - redis

CHANGES.md

@@ -1,3 +1,35 @@
+### 0.5.3
+
+(June 3rd, 2015)
+
+- Better API for instantiating Workers. Thanks @RyanMTB!
+- Better support for unicode kwargs. Thanks @nealtodd and @brownstein!
+- Workers now automatically cleans up job registries every hour
+- Jobs in `FailedQueue` now have their statuses set properly
+- `enqueue_call()` no longer ignores `ttl`. Thanks @mbodock!
+- Improved logging. Thanks @trevorprater!
+
+
+### 0.5.2
+
+(April 14th, 2015)
+
+- Support SSL connection to Redis (requires redis-py>=2.10)
+- Fix to prevent deep call stacks with large queues
+
+
+### 0.5.1
+
+(March 9th, 2015)
+
+- Resolve performance issue when queues contain many jobs
+- Restore the ability to specify connection params in config
+- Record `birth_date` and `death_date` on Worker
+- Add support for SSL URLs in Redis (and `REDIS_SSL` config option)
+- Fix encoding issues with non-ASCII characters in function arguments
+- Fix Redis transaction management issue with job dependencies
+
+
 ### 0.5.0
 (Jan 30th, 2015)
 

Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+all:
+	@grep -Ee '^[a-z].*:' Makefile | cut -d: -f1 | grep -vF all
+
+clean:
+	rm -rf build/ dist/
+
+release: clean
+	# Check if latest tag is the current head we're releasing
+	echo "Latest tag = $$(git tag | sort -nr | head -n1)"
+	echo "HEAD SHA       = $$(git sha head)"
+	echo "Latest tag SHA = $$(git tag | sort -nr | head -n1 | xargs git sha)"
+	@test "$$(git sha head)" = "$$(git tag | sort -nr | head -n1 | xargs git sha)"
+	make force_release
+
+force_release: clean
+	git push --tags
+	python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+	twine upload dist/*

README.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ them in the background with workers.  It is backed by Redis and it is designed
 to have a low barrier to entry.  It should be integrated in your web stack
 easily.
 
-RQ requires Redis >= 2.6.0.
+RQ requires Redis >= 2.7.0.
 
 [![Build status](https://travis-ci.org/nvie/rq.svg?branch=master)](https://secure.travis-ci.org/nvie/rq)
 [![Downloads](https://pypip.in/d/rq/badge.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rq)

requirements.txt

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-redis==2.7.0
+redis>=2.7
 click>=3.0.0

rq/cli/helpers.py

@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ import time
 from functools import partial
 
 import click
+import redis
 from redis import StrictRedis
-
 from rq import Queue, Worker
 from rq.logutils import setup_loghandlers
 from rq.worker import WorkerStatus
@@ -31,12 +31,28 @@ def get_redis_from_config(settings):
     if settings.get('REDIS_URL') is not None:
         return StrictRedis.from_url(settings['REDIS_URL'])
 
-    return StrictRedis(
-        host=settings.get('REDIS_HOST', 'localhost'),
-        port=settings.get('REDIS_PORT', 6379),
-        db=settings.get('REDIS_DB', 0),
-        password=settings.get('REDIS_PASSWORD', None),
-    )
+    kwargs = {
+        'host': settings.get('REDIS_HOST', 'localhost'),
+        'port': settings.get('REDIS_PORT', 6379),
+        'db': settings.get('REDIS_DB', 0),
+        'password': settings.get('REDIS_PASSWORD', None),
+    }
+
+    use_ssl = settings.get('REDIS_SSL', False)
+    if use_ssl:
+        # If SSL is required, we need to depend on redis-py being 2.10 at
+        # least
+        def safeint(x):
+            try:
+                return int(x)
+            except ValueError:
+                return 0
+
+        version_info = tuple(safeint(x) for x in redis.__version__.split('.'))
+        if not version_info >= (2, 10):
+            raise RuntimeError('Using SSL requires a redis-py version >= 2.10')
+        kwargs['ssl'] = use_ssl
+    return StrictRedis(**kwargs)
 
 
 def pad(s, pad_to_length):
@@ -118,7 +134,7 @@ def show_workers(queues, raw, by_queue):
     else:
         qs = Queue.all()
         ws = Worker.all()
-        filter_queues = lambda x: x
+        filter_queues = (lambda x: x)
 
     if not by_queue:
         for w in ws:

rq/connections.py

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ def use_connection(redis=None):
     use of use_connection() and stacked connection contexts.
     """
     assert len(_connection_stack) <= 1, \
-        'You should not mix Connection contexts with use_connection().'
+        'You should not mix Connection contexts with use_connection()'
     release_local(_connection_stack)
 
     if redis is None:
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ def resolve_connection(connection=None):
 
     connection = get_current_connection()
     if connection is None:
-        raise NoRedisConnectionException('Could not resolve a Redis connection.')
+        raise NoRedisConnectionException('Could not resolve a Redis connection')
     return connection
 
 

rq/exceptions.py

@@ -11,10 +11,6 @@ class InvalidJobOperationError(Exception):
     pass
 
 
-class NoQueueError(Exception):
-    pass
-
-
 class UnpickleError(Exception):
     def __init__(self, message, raw_data, inner_exception=None):
         super(UnpickleError, self).__init__(message, inner_exception)

rq/job.py

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def unpickle(pickled_string):
     try:
         obj = loads(pickled_string)
     except Exception as e:
-        raise UnpickleError('Could not unpickle.', pickled_string, e)
+        raise UnpickleError('Could not unpickle', pickled_string, e)
     return obj
 
 
@@ -99,9 +99,9 @@ class Job(object):
             kwargs = {}
 
         if not isinstance(args, (tuple, list)):
-            raise TypeError('{0!r} is not a valid args list.'.format(args))
+            raise TypeError('{0!r} is not a valid args list'.format(args))
         if not isinstance(kwargs, dict):
-            raise TypeError('{0!r} is not a valid kwargs dict.'.format(kwargs))
+            raise TypeError('{0!r} is not a valid kwargs dict'.format(kwargs))
 
         job = cls(connection=connection)
         if id is not None:
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ class Job(object):
             job._instance = func.__self__
             job._func_name = func.__name__
         elif inspect.isfunction(func) or inspect.isbuiltin(func):
-            job._func_name = '%s.%s' % (func.__module__, func.__name__)
+            job._func_name = '{0}.{1}'.format(func.__module__, func.__name__)
         elif isinstance(func, string_types):
             job._func_name = as_text(func)
         elif not inspect.isclass(func) and hasattr(func, '__call__'):  # a callable class instance
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ class Job(object):
     def data(self):
         if self._data is UNEVALUATED:
             if self._func_name is UNEVALUATED:
-                raise ValueError('Cannot build the job data.')
+                raise ValueError('Cannot build the job data')
 
             if self._instance is UNEVALUATED:
                 self._instance = None
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ class Job(object):
         self.meta = {}
 
     def __repr__(self):  # noqa
-        return 'Job(%r, enqueued_at=%r)' % (self._id, self.enqueued_at)
+        return 'Job({0!r}, enqueued_at={1!r})'.format(self._id, self.enqueued_at)
 
     # Data access
     def get_id(self):  # noqa
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ class Job(object):
     def set_id(self, value):
         """Sets a job ID for the given job."""
         if not isinstance(value, string_types):
-            raise TypeError('id must be a string, not {0}.'.format(type(value)))
+            raise TypeError('id must be a string, not {0}'.format(type(value)))
         self._id = value
 
     id = property(get_id, set_id)
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ class Job(object):
     @classmethod
     def dependents_key_for(cls, job_id):
         """The Redis key that is used to store job hash under."""
-        return 'rq:job:%s:dependents' % (job_id,)
+        return 'rq:job:{0}:dependents'.format(job_id)
 
     @property
     def key(self):
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ class Job(object):
         key = self.key
         obj = decode_redis_hash(self.connection.hgetall(key))
         if len(obj) == 0:
-            raise NoSuchJobError('No such job: %s' % (key,))
+            raise NoSuchJobError('No such job: {0}'.format(key))
 
         def to_date(date_str):
             if date_str is None:
@@ -417,6 +417,7 @@ class Job(object):
         self.result_ttl = int(obj.get('result_ttl')) if obj.get('result_ttl') else None  # noqa
         self._status = as_text(obj.get('status') if obj.get('status') else None)
         self._dependency_id = as_text(obj.get('dependency_id', None))
+        self.ttl = int(obj.get('ttl')) if obj.get('ttl') else None
         self.meta = unpickle(obj.get('meta')) if obj.get('meta') else {}
 
     def to_dict(self):
@@ -447,6 +448,8 @@ class Job(object):
             obj['dependency_id'] = self._dependency_id
         if self.meta:
             obj['meta'] = dumps(self.meta)
+        if self.ttl:
+            obj['ttl'] = self.ttl
 
         return obj
 
@@ -456,7 +459,7 @@ class Job(object):
         connection = pipeline if pipeline is not None else self.connection
 
         connection.hmset(key, self.to_dict())
-        self.cleanup(self.ttl)
+        self.cleanup(self.ttl, pipeline=connection)
 
     def cancel(self):
         """Cancels the given job, which will prevent the job from ever being
@@ -485,6 +488,8 @@ class Job(object):
     # Job execution
     def perform(self):  # noqa
         """Invokes the job function with the job arguments."""
+        self.connection.persist(self.key)
+        self.ttl = -1
         _job_stack.push(self.id)
         try:
             self._result = self.func(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
@@ -514,17 +519,14 @@ class Job(object):
         if self.func_name is None:
             return None
 
-        # Python 2/3 compatibility
-        try:
-            arg_list = [repr(arg).decode('utf-8') for arg in self.args]
-        except AttributeError:
-            arg_list = [repr(arg) for arg in self.args]
+        arg_list = [as_text(repr(arg)) for arg in self.args]
 
-        kwargs = ['{0}={1!r}'.format(k, v) for k, v in self.kwargs.items()]
+        kwargs = ['{0}={1}'.format(k, as_text(repr(v))) for k, v in self.kwargs.items()]
         # Sort here because python 3.3 & 3.4 makes different call_string
         arg_list += sorted(kwargs)
         args = ', '.join(arg_list)
-        return '%s(%s)' % (self.func_name, args)
+
+        return '{0}({1})'.format(self.func_name, args)
 
     def cleanup(self, ttl=None, pipeline=None):
         """Prepare job for eventual deletion (if needed). This method is usually
@@ -563,7 +565,7 @@ class Job(object):
         connection.sadd(Job.dependents_key_for(self._dependency_id), self.id)
 
     def __str__(self):
-        return '<Job %s: %s>' % (self.id, self.description)
+        return '<Job {0}: {1}>'.format(self.id, self.description)
 
     # Job equality
     def __eq__(self, other):  # noqa

rq/queue.py

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ class Queue(object):
         """
         prefix = cls.redis_queue_namespace_prefix
         if not queue_key.startswith(prefix):
-            raise ValueError('Not a valid RQ queue key: %s' % (queue_key,))
+            raise ValueError('Not a valid RQ queue key: {0}'.format(queue_key))
         name = queue_key[len(prefix):]
         return cls(name, connection=connection)
 
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ class Queue(object):
         self.connection = resolve_connection(connection)
         prefix = self.redis_queue_namespace_prefix
         self.name = name
-        self._key = '%s%s' % (prefix, name)
+        self._key = '{0}{1}'.format(prefix, name)
         self._default_timeout = default_timeout
         self._async = async
 
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ class Queue(object):
     def __len__(self):
         return self.count
 
+    def __iter__(self):
+        yield self
+
     @property
     def key(self):
         """Returns the Redis key for this Queue."""
@@ -183,7 +186,7 @@ class Queue(object):
 
         job = self.job_class.create(
             func, args, kwargs, connection=self.connection,
-            result_ttl=result_ttl, status=JobStatus.QUEUED,
+            result_ttl=result_ttl, ttl=ttl, status=JobStatus.QUEUED,
             description=description, depends_on=depends_on,
             timeout=timeout, id=job_id, origin=self.name)
 
@@ -194,11 +197,12 @@ class Queue(object):
         if depends_on is not None:
             if not isinstance(depends_on, self.job_class):
                 depends_on = Job(id=depends_on, connection=self.connection)
-            with self.connection.pipeline() as pipe:
+            with self.connection._pipeline() as pipe:
                 while True:
                     try:
                         pipe.watch(depends_on.key)
                         if depends_on.get_status() != JobStatus.FINISHED:
+                            pipe.multi()
                             job.set_status(JobStatus.DEFERRED)
                             job.register_dependency(pipeline=pipe)
                             job.save(pipeline=pipe)
@@ -226,7 +230,7 @@ class Queue(object):
         """
         if not isinstance(f, string_types) and f.__module__ == '__main__':
             raise ValueError('Functions from the __main__ module cannot be processed '
-                             'by workers.')
+                             'by workers')
 
         # Detect explicit invocations, i.e. of the form:
         #     q.enqueue(foo, args=(1, 2), kwargs={'a': 1}, timeout=30)
@@ -239,7 +243,7 @@ class Queue(object):
         at_front = kwargs.pop('at_front', False)
 
         if 'args' in kwargs or 'kwargs' in kwargs:
-            assert args == (), 'Extra positional arguments cannot be used when using explicit args and kwargs.'  # noqa
+            assert args == (), 'Extra positional arguments cannot be used when using explicit args and kwargs'  # noqa
             args = kwargs.pop('args', None)
             kwargs = kwargs.pop('kwargs', None)
 
@@ -310,7 +314,7 @@ class Queue(object):
         connection = resolve_connection(connection)
         if timeout is not None:  # blocking variant
             if timeout == 0:
-                raise ValueError('RQ does not support indefinite timeouts. Please pick a timeout value > 0.')
+                raise ValueError('RQ does not support indefinite timeouts. Please pick a timeout value > 0')
             result = connection.blpop(queue_keys, timeout)
             if result is None:
                 raise DequeueTimeout(timeout, queue_keys)
@@ -328,6 +332,7 @@ class Queue(object):
 
         Returns a job_class instance, which can be executed or inspected.
         """
+        while True:
             job_id = self.pop_job_id()
             if job_id is None:
                 return None
@@ -335,8 +340,7 @@ class Queue(object):
                 job = self.job_class.fetch(job_id, connection=self.connection)
             except NoSuchJobError as e:
                 # Silently pass on jobs that don't exist (anymore),
-            # and continue by reinvoking itself recursively
-            return self.dequeue()
+                continue
             except UnpickleError as e:
                 # Attach queue information on the exception for improved error
                 # reporting
@@ -381,22 +385,22 @@ class Queue(object):
     # auto-generated by the @total_ordering decorator)
     def __eq__(self, other):  # noqa
         if not isinstance(other, Queue):
-            raise TypeError('Cannot compare queues to other objects.')
+            raise TypeError('Cannot compare queues to other objects')
         return self.name == other.name
 
     def __lt__(self, other):
         if not isinstance(other, Queue):
-            raise TypeError('Cannot compare queues to other objects.')
+            raise TypeError('Cannot compare queues to other objects')
         return self.name < other.name
 
     def __hash__(self):
         return hash(self.name)
 
     def __repr__(self):  # noqa
-        return 'Queue(%r)' % (self.name,)
+        return 'Queue({0!r})'.format(self.name)
 
     def __str__(self):
-        return '<Queue \'%s\'>' % (self.name,)
+        return '<Queue {0!r}>'.format(self.name)
 
 
 class FailedQueue(Queue):
@@ -432,7 +436,7 @@ class FailedQueue(Queue):
 
         # Delete it from the failed queue (raise an error if that failed)
         if self.remove(job) == 0:
-            raise InvalidJobOperationError('Cannot requeue non-failed jobs.')
+            raise InvalidJobOperationError('Cannot requeue non-failed jobs')
 
         job.set_status(JobStatus.QUEUED)
         job.exc_info = None

rq/registry.py

@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
 from .compat import as_text
 from .connections import resolve_connection
+from .exceptions import NoSuchJobError
+from .job import Job, JobStatus
 from .queue import FailedQueue
 from .utils import current_timestamp
 
 
 class BaseRegistry(object):
     """
-    Base implementation of job registry, implemented in Redis sorted set. Each job
-    is stored as a key in the registry, scored by expiration time (unix timestamp).
+    Base implementation of a job registry, implemented in Redis sorted set.
+    Each job is stored as a key in the registry, scored by expiration time
+    (unix timestamp).
     """
 
     def __init__(self, name='default', connection=None):
@@ -66,7 +69,7 @@ class StartedJobRegistry(BaseRegistry):
 
     def __init__(self, name='default', connection=None):
         super(StartedJobRegistry, self).__init__(name, connection)
-        self.key = 'rq:wip:%s' % name
+        self.key = 'rq:wip:{0}'.format(name)
 
     def cleanup(self, timestamp=None):
         """Remove expired jobs from registry and add them to FailedQueue.
@@ -80,9 +83,17 @@ class StartedJobRegistry(BaseRegistry):
 
         if job_ids:
             failed_queue = FailedQueue(connection=self.connection)
+
             with self.connection.pipeline() as pipeline:
                 for job_id in job_ids:
+                    try:
+                        job = Job.fetch(job_id, connection=self.connection)
+                        job.status = JobStatus.FAILED
+                        job.save(pipeline=pipeline)
                         failed_queue.push_job_id(job_id, pipeline=pipeline)
+                    except NoSuchJobError:
+                        pass
+
                 pipeline.zremrangebyscore(self.key, 0, score)
                 pipeline.execute()
 
@@ -97,7 +108,7 @@ class FinishedJobRegistry(BaseRegistry):
 
     def __init__(self, name='default', connection=None):
         super(FinishedJobRegistry, self).__init__(name, connection)
-        self.key = 'rq:finished:%s' % name
+        self.key = 'rq:finished:{0}'.format(name)
 
     def cleanup(self, timestamp=None):
         """Remove expired jobs from registry.
@@ -117,10 +128,18 @@ class DeferredJobRegistry(BaseRegistry):
 
     def __init__(self, name='default', connection=None):
         super(DeferredJobRegistry, self).__init__(name, connection)
-        self.key = 'rq:deferred:%s' % name
+        self.key = 'rq:deferred:{0}'.format(name)
 
     def cleanup(self):
         """This method is only here to prevent errors because this method is
         automatically called by `count()` and `get_job_ids()` methods
         implemented in BaseRegistry."""
         pass
+
+
+def clean_registries(queue):
+    """Cleans StartedJobRegistry and FinishedJobRegistry of a queue."""
+    registry = FinishedJobRegistry(name=queue.name, connection=queue.connection)
+    registry.cleanup()
+    registry = StartedJobRegistry(name=queue.name, connection=queue.connection)
+    registry.cleanup()

rq/timeouts.py

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ class UnixSignalDeathPenalty(BaseDeathPenalty):
 
     def handle_death_penalty(self, signum, frame):
         raise JobTimeoutException('Job exceeded maximum timeout '
-                                  'value (%d seconds).' % self._timeout)
+                                  'value ({0} seconds)'.format(self._timeout))
 
     def setup_death_penalty(self):
         """Sets up an alarm signal and a signal handler that raises

rq/utils.py

@@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ import datetime
 import importlib
 import logging
 import sys
+from collections import Iterable
 
-from .compat import as_text, is_python_version
+from .compat import as_text, is_python_version, string_types
 
 
 class _Colorizer(object):
@@ -205,6 +206,19 @@ def first(iterable, default=None, key=None):
     return default
 
 
+def is_nonstring_iterable(obj):
+    """Returns whether the obj is an iterable, but not a string"""
+    return isinstance(obj, Iterable) and not isinstance(obj, string_types)
+
+
+def ensure_list(obj):
+    """
+    When passed an iterable of objects, does nothing, otherwise, it returns
+    a list with just that object in it.
+    """
+    return obj if is_nonstring_iterable(obj) else [obj]
+
+
 def current_timestamp():
     """Returns current UTC timestamp"""
     return calendar.timegm(datetime.datetime.utcnow().utctimetuple())

rq/version.py

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function,
                         unicode_literals)
 
-VERSION = '0.5.0'
+VERSION = '0.5.3'

rq/worker.py

@@ -12,18 +12,20 @@ import sys
 import time
 import traceback
 import warnings
+from datetime import timedelta
 
 from rq.compat import as_text, string_types, text_type
 
 from .connections import get_current_connection
-from .exceptions import DequeueTimeout, NoQueueError
+from .exceptions import DequeueTimeout
 from .job import Job, JobStatus
 from .logutils import setup_loghandlers
-from .queue import get_failed_queue, Queue
-from .registry import FinishedJobRegistry, StartedJobRegistry
+from .queue import Queue, get_failed_queue
+from .registry import FinishedJobRegistry, StartedJobRegistry, clean_registries
 from .suspension import is_suspended
 from .timeouts import UnixSignalDeathPenalty
-from .utils import enum, import_attribute, make_colorizer, utcformat, utcnow
+from .utils import (ensure_list, enum, import_attribute, make_colorizer,
+                    utcformat, utcnow, utcparse)
 from .version import VERSION
 
 try:
@@ -101,7 +103,7 @@ class Worker(object):
         """
         prefix = cls.redis_worker_namespace_prefix
         if not worker_key.startswith(prefix):
-            raise ValueError('Not a valid RQ worker key: %s' % (worker_key,))
+            raise ValueError('Not a valid RQ worker key: {0}'.format(worker_key))
 
         if connection is None:
             connection = get_current_connection()
@@ -125,8 +127,9 @@ class Worker(object):
         if connection is None:
             connection = get_current_connection()
         self.connection = connection
-        if isinstance(queues, self.queue_class):
-            queues = [queues]
+
+        queues = [self.queue_class(name=q) if isinstance(q, text_type) else q
+                  for q in ensure_list(queues)]
         self._name = name
         self.queues = queues
         self.validate_queues()
@@ -143,9 +146,10 @@ class Worker(object):
         self._state = 'starting'
         self._is_horse = False
         self._horse_pid = 0
-        self._stopped = False
+        self._stop_requested = False
         self.log = logger
         self.failed_queue = get_failed_queue(connection=self.connection)
+        self.last_cleaned_at = None
 
         # By default, push the "move-to-failed-queue" exception handler onto
         # the stack
@@ -170,11 +174,9 @@ class Worker(object):
 
     def validate_queues(self):
         """Sanity check for the given queues."""
-        if not iterable(self.queues):
-            raise ValueError('Argument queues not iterable.')
         for queue in self.queues:
             if not isinstance(queue, self.queue_class):
-                raise NoQueueError('Give each worker at least one Queue.')
+                raise TypeError('{0} is not of type {1} or text type'.format(queue, self.queue_class))
 
     def queue_names(self):
         """Returns the queue names of this worker's queues."""
@@ -195,7 +197,7 @@ class Worker(object):
         if self._name is None:
             hostname = socket.gethostname()
             shortname, _, _ = hostname.partition('.')
-            self._name = '%s.%s' % (shortname, self.pid)
+            self._name = '{0}.{1}'.format(shortname, self.pid)
         return self._name
 
     @property
@@ -225,15 +227,15 @@ class Worker(object):
 
         This can be used to make `ps -ef` output more readable.
         """
-        setprocname('rq: %s' % (message,))
+        setprocname('rq: {0}'.format(message))
 
     def register_birth(self):
         """Registers its own birth."""
-        self.log.debug('Registering birth of worker %s' % (self.name,))
+        self.log.debug('Registering birth of worker {0}'.format(self.name))
         if self.connection.exists(self.key) and \
                 not self.connection.hexists(self.key, 'death'):
-            raise ValueError('There exists an active worker named \'%s\' '
-                             'already.' % (self.name,))
+            msg = 'There exists an active worker named {0!r} already'
+            raise ValueError(msg.format(self.name))
         key = self.key
         queues = ','.join(self.queue_names())
         with self.connection._pipeline() as p:
@@ -255,6 +257,20 @@ class Worker(object):
             p.expire(self.key, 60)
             p.execute()
 
+    @property
+    def birth_date(self):
+        """Fetches birth date from Redis."""
+        birth_timestamp = self.connection.hget(self.key, 'birth')
+        if birth_timestamp is not None:
+            return utcparse(as_text(birth_timestamp))
+
+    @property
+    def death_date(self):
+        """Fetches death date from Redis."""
+        death_timestamp = self.connection.hget(self.key, 'death')
+        if death_timestamp is not None:
+            return utcparse(as_text(death_timestamp))
+
     def set_state(self, state, pipeline=None):
         self._state = state
         connection = pipeline if pipeline is not None else self.connection
@@ -302,10 +318,6 @@ class Worker(object):
 
         return self.job_class.fetch(job_id, self.connection)
 
-    @property
-    def stopped(self):
-        return self._stopped
-
     def _install_signal_handlers(self):
         """Installs signal handlers for handling SIGINT and SIGTERM
         gracefully.
@@ -314,18 +326,18 @@ class Worker(object):
         def request_force_stop(signum, frame):
             """Terminates the application (cold shutdown).
             """
-            self.log.warning('Cold shut down.')
+            self.log.warning('Cold shut down')
 
             # Take down the horse with the worker
             if self.horse_pid:
-                msg = 'Taking down horse %d with me.' % self.horse_pid
+                msg = 'Taking down horse {0} with me'.format(self.horse_pid)
                 self.log.debug(msg)
                 try:
                     os.kill(self.horse_pid, signal.SIGKILL)
                 except OSError as e:
                     # ESRCH ("No such process") is fine with us
                     if e.errno != errno.ESRCH:
-                        self.log.debug('Horse already down.')
+                        self.log.debug('Horse already down')
                         raise
             raise SystemExit()
 
@@ -333,18 +345,18 @@ class Worker(object):
             """Stops the current worker loop but waits for child processes to
             end gracefully (warm shutdown).
             """
-            self.log.debug('Got signal %s.' % signal_name(signum))
+            self.log.debug('Got signal {0}'.format(signal_name(signum)))
 
             signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, request_force_stop)
             signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, request_force_stop)
 
-            msg = 'Warm shut down requested.'
+            msg = 'Warm shut down requested'
             self.log.warning(msg)
 
             # If shutdown is requested in the middle of a job, wait until
             # finish before shutting down
             if self.get_state() == 'busy':
-                self._stopped = True
+                self._stop_requested = True
                 self.log.debug('Stopping after current horse is finished. '
                                'Press Ctrl+C again for a cold shutdown.')
             else:
@@ -359,15 +371,15 @@ class Worker(object):
         before_state = None
         notified = False
 
-        while not self.stopped and is_suspended(self.connection):
+        while not self._stop_requested and is_suspended(self.connection):
 
             if burst:
-                self.log.info('Suspended in burst mode -- exiting.'
-                              'Note: There could still be unperformed jobs on the queue')
+                self.log.info('Suspended in burst mode, exiting')
+                self.log.info('Note: There could still be unfinished jobs on the queue')
                 raise StopRequested
 
             if not notified:
-                self.log.info('Worker suspended, use "rq resume" command to resume')
+                self.log.info('Worker suspended, run `rq resume` to resume')
                 before_state = self.get_state()
                 self.set_state(WorkerStatus.SUSPENDED)
                 notified = True
@@ -390,7 +402,7 @@ class Worker(object):
 
         did_perform_work = False
         self.register_birth()
-        self.log.info('RQ worker started, version %s' % VERSION)
+        self.log.info("RQ worker {0!r} started, version %s".format(self.key, VERSION))
         self.set_state(WorkerStatus.STARTED)
 
         try:
@@ -398,14 +410,19 @@ class Worker(object):
                 try:
                     self.check_for_suspension(burst)
 
-                    if self.stopped:
-                        self.log.info('Stopping on request.')
+                    if self.should_run_maintenance_tasks:
+                        self.clean_registries()
+
+                    if self._stop_requested:
+                        self.log.info('Stopping on request')
                         break
 
                     timeout = None if burst else max(1, self.default_worker_ttl - 60)
 
                     result = self.dequeue_job_and_maintain_ttl(timeout)
                     if result is None:
+                        if burst:
+                            self.log.info("RQ worker {0!r} done, quitting".format(self.key))
                         break
                 except StopRequested:
                     break
@@ -429,10 +446,9 @@ class Worker(object):
         qnames = self.queue_names()
 
         self.set_state(WorkerStatus.IDLE)
-        self.procline('Listening on %s' % ','.join(qnames))
+        self.procline('Listening on {0}'.format(','.join(qnames)))
         self.log.info('')
-        self.log.info('*** Listening on %s...' %
-                      green(', '.join(qnames)))
+        self.log.info('*** Listening on {0}...'.format(green(', '.join(qnames))))
 
         while True:
             self.heartbeat()
@@ -442,7 +458,7 @@ class Worker(object):
                                                       connection=self.connection)
                 if result is not None:
                     job, queue = result
-                    self.log.info('%s: %s (%s)' % (green(queue.name),
+                    self.log.info('{0}: {1} ({2})'.format(green(queue.name),
                                                           blue(job.description), job.id))
 
                 break
@@ -480,7 +496,7 @@ class Worker(object):
             self.main_work_horse(job)
         else:
             self._horse_pid = child_pid
-            self.procline('Forked %d at %d' % (child_pid, time.time()))
+            self.procline('Forked {0} at {0}'.format(child_pid, time.time()))
             while True:
                 try:
                     self.set_state('busy')
@@ -535,9 +551,8 @@ class Worker(object):
             job.set_status(JobStatus.STARTED, pipeline=pipeline)
             pipeline.execute()
 
-        self.procline('Processing %s from %s since %s' % (
-            job.func_name,
-            job.origin, time.time()))
+        msg = 'Processing {0} from {1} since {2}'
+        self.procline(msg.format(job.func_name, job.origin, time.time()))
 
     def perform_job(self, job):
         """Performs the actual work of a job.  Will/should only be called
@@ -582,14 +597,14 @@ class Worker(object):
         if rv is None:
             self.log.info('Job OK')
         else:
-            self.log.info('Job OK, result = %s' % (yellow(text_type(rv)),))
+            self.log.info('Job OK, result = {0!r}'.format(yellow(text_type(rv))))
 
         if result_ttl == 0:
-            self.log.info('Result discarded immediately.')
+            self.log.info('Result discarded immediately')
         elif result_ttl > 0:
-            self.log.info('Result is kept for %d seconds.' % result_ttl)
+            self.log.info('Result is kept for {0} seconds'.format(result_ttl))
         else:
-            self.log.warning('Result will never expire, clean up result key manually.')
+            self.log.warning('Result will never expire, clean up result key manually')
 
         return True
 
@@ -605,7 +620,7 @@ class Worker(object):
         })
 
         for handler in reversed(self._exc_handlers):
-            self.log.debug('Invoking exception handler %s' % (handler,))
+            self.log.debug('Invoking exception handler {0}'.format(handler))
             fallthrough = handler(job, *exc_info)
 
             # Only handlers with explicit return values should disable further
@@ -619,7 +634,7 @@ class Worker(object):
     def move_to_failed_queue(self, job, *exc_info):
         """Default exception handler: move the job to the failed queue."""
         exc_string = ''.join(traceback.format_exception(*exc_info))
-        self.log.warning('Moving job to %s queue.' % self.failed_queue.name)
+        self.log.warning('Moving job to {0!r} queue'.format(self.failed_queue.name))
         self.failed_queue.quarantine(job, exc_info=exc_string)
 
     def push_exc_handler(self, handler_func):
@@ -640,13 +655,23 @@ class Worker(object):
         """The hash does not take the database/connection into account"""
         return hash(self.name)
 
+    def clean_registries(self):
+        """Runs maintenance jobs on each Queue's registries."""
+        for queue in self.queues:
+            clean_registries(queue)
+        self.last_cleaned_at = utcnow()
 
-class SimpleWorker(Worker):
-    def _install_signal_handlers(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        """Signal handlers are useless for test worker, as it
-        does not have fork() ability"""
-        pass
+    @property
+    def should_run_maintenance_tasks(self):
+        """Maintenance tasks should run on first startup or every hour."""
+        if self.last_cleaned_at is None:
+            return True
+        if (utcnow() - self.last_cleaned_at) > timedelta(hours=1):
+            return True
+        return False
 
+
+class SimpleWorker(Worker):
     def main_work_horse(self, *args, **kwargs):
         raise NotImplementedError("Test worker does not implement this method")
 

setup.py

@@ -51,13 +51,16 @@ setup(
             'rqworker = rq.cli:worker',
         ],
     },
+    extras_require={
+        ':python_version=="2.6"': ['argparse', 'importlib'],
+    },
     classifiers=[
         # As from http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=list_classifiers
         #'Development Status :: 1 - Planning',
         #'Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha',
         #'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha',
-        'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
-        #'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
+        #'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
+        'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
         #'Development Status :: 6 - Mature',
         #'Development Status :: 7 - Inactive',
         'Intended Audience :: Developers',

tests/fixtures.py

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import time
 
 from rq import Connection, get_current_job
 from rq.decorators import job
+from rq.compat import PY2
 
 
 def say_pid():
@@ -54,8 +55,7 @@ def create_file_after_timeout(path, timeout):
 
 
 def access_self():
-    job = get_current_job()
-    return job.id
+    assert get_current_job() is not None
 
 
 def echo(*args, **kwargs):
@@ -79,15 +79,25 @@ class CallableObject(object):
         return u"I'm callable"
 
 
+class UnicodeStringObject(object):
+    def __repr__(self):
+        if PY2:
+            return u'é'.encode('utf-8')
+        else:
+            return u'é'
+
+
 with Connection():
     @job(queue='default')
     def decorated_job(x, y):
         return x + y
 
 
-def long_running_job():
-    time.sleep(10)
-
 def black_hole(job, *exc_info):
     # Don't fall through to default behaviour (moving to failed queue)
     return False
+
+
+def long_running_job(timeout=10):
+    time.sleep(timeout)
+    return 'Done sleeping...'

tests/test_job.py

@@ -3,18 +3,20 @@ from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function,
                         unicode_literals)
 
 from datetime import datetime
+import time
 
 from tests import RQTestCase
-from tests.fixtures import (access_self, CallableObject, Number, say_hello,
-                            some_calculation)
 from tests.helpers import strip_microseconds
 
-from rq.compat import as_text, PY2
+from rq.compat import PY2, as_text
 from rq.exceptions import NoSuchJobError, UnpickleError
-from rq.job import get_current_job, Job
+from rq.job import Job, get_current_job
 from rq.queue import Queue
 from rq.registry import DeferredJobRegistry
 from rq.utils import utcformat
+from rq.worker import Worker
+
+from . import fixtures
 
 try:
     from cPickle import loads, dumps
@@ -31,16 +33,16 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
             kwargs=dict(snowman="☃", null=None),
         )
 
-        try:
-            # Python 2
-            test_string = u"myfunc(12, u'\\u2603', null=None, snowman=u'\\u2603')".decode('utf-8')
-        except AttributeError:
+        if not PY2:
             # Python 3
-            test_string = "myfunc(12, '☃', null=None, snowman='☃')"
+            expected_string = "myfunc(12, '☃', null=None, snowman='☃')"
+        else:
+            # Python 2
+            expected_string = u"myfunc(12, u'\\u2603', null=None, snowman=u'\\u2603')".decode('utf-8')
 
         self.assertEquals(
             job.description,
-            test_string,
+            expected_string,
         )
 
     def test_create_empty_job(self):
@@ -69,7 +71,7 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
 
     def test_create_typical_job(self):
         """Creation of jobs for function calls."""
-        job = Job.create(func=some_calculation, args=(3, 4), kwargs=dict(z=2))
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.some_calculation, args=(3, 4), kwargs=dict(z=2))
 
         # Jobs have a random UUID
         self.assertIsNotNone(job.id)
@@ -78,7 +80,7 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
         self.assertIsNone(job.instance)
 
         # Job data is set...
-        self.assertEquals(job.func, some_calculation)
+        self.assertEquals(job.func, fixtures.some_calculation)
         self.assertEquals(job.args, (3, 4))
         self.assertEquals(job.kwargs, {'z': 2})
 
@@ -89,7 +91,7 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
 
     def test_create_instance_method_job(self):
         """Creation of jobs for instance methods."""
-        n = Number(2)
+        n = fixtures.Number(2)
         job = Job.create(func=n.div, args=(4,))
 
         # Job data is set
@@ -102,13 +104,13 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
         job = Job.create(func='tests.fixtures.say_hello', args=('World',))
 
         # Job data is set
-        self.assertEquals(job.func, say_hello)
+        self.assertEquals(job.func, fixtures.say_hello)
         self.assertIsNone(job.instance)
         self.assertEquals(job.args, ('World',))
 
     def test_create_job_from_callable_class(self):
         """Creation of jobs using a callable class specifier."""
-        kallable = CallableObject()
+        kallable = fixtures.CallableObject()
         job = Job.create(func=kallable)
 
         self.assertEquals(job.func, kallable.__call__)
@@ -137,7 +139,7 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
 
     def test_save(self):  # noqa
         """Storing jobs."""
-        job = Job.create(func=some_calculation, args=(3, 4), kwargs=dict(z=2))
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.some_calculation, args=(3, 4), kwargs=dict(z=2))
 
         # Saving creates a Redis hash
         self.assertEquals(self.testconn.exists(job.key), False)
@@ -173,7 +175,7 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
 
     def test_persistence_of_typical_jobs(self):
         """Storing typical jobs."""
-        job = Job.create(func=some_calculation, args=(3, 4), kwargs=dict(z=2))
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.some_calculation, args=(3, 4), kwargs=dict(z=2))
         job.save()
 
         expected_date = strip_microseconds(job.created_at)
@@ -189,15 +191,15 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
 
     def test_persistence_of_parent_job(self):
         """Storing jobs with parent job, either instance or key."""
-        parent_job = Job.create(func=some_calculation)
+        parent_job = Job.create(func=fixtures.some_calculation)
         parent_job.save()
-        job = Job.create(func=some_calculation, depends_on=parent_job)
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.some_calculation, depends_on=parent_job)
         job.save()
         stored_job = Job.fetch(job.id)
         self.assertEqual(stored_job._dependency_id, parent_job.id)
         self.assertEqual(stored_job.dependency, parent_job)
 
-        job = Job.create(func=some_calculation, depends_on=parent_job.id)
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.some_calculation, depends_on=parent_job.id)
         job.save()
         stored_job = Job.fetch(job.id)
         self.assertEqual(stored_job._dependency_id, parent_job.id)
@@ -205,7 +207,7 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
 
     def test_store_then_fetch(self):
         """Store, then fetch."""
-        job = Job.create(func=some_calculation, args=(3, 4), kwargs=dict(z=2))
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.some_calculation, args=(3, 4), kwargs=dict(z=2))
         job.save()
 
         job2 = Job.fetch(job.id)
@@ -224,7 +226,7 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
     def test_fetching_unreadable_data(self):
         """Fetching succeeds on unreadable data, but lazy props fail."""
         # Set up
-        job = Job.create(func=some_calculation, args=(3, 4), kwargs=dict(z=2))
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.some_calculation, args=(3, 4), kwargs=dict(z=2))
         job.save()
 
         # Just replace the data hkey with some random noise
@@ -237,7 +239,7 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
 
     def test_job_is_unimportable(self):
         """Jobs that cannot be imported throw exception on access."""
-        job = Job.create(func=say_hello, args=('Lionel',))
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.say_hello, args=('Lionel',))
         job.save()
 
         # Now slightly modify the job to make it unimportable (this is
@@ -253,7 +255,7 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
 
     def test_custom_meta_is_persisted(self):
         """Additional meta data on jobs are stored persisted correctly."""
-        job = Job.create(func=say_hello, args=('Lionel',))
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.say_hello, args=('Lionel',))
         job.meta['foo'] = 'bar'
         job.save()
 
@@ -265,25 +267,25 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
 
     def test_result_ttl_is_persisted(self):
         """Ensure that job's result_ttl is set properly"""
-        job = Job.create(func=say_hello, args=('Lionel',), result_ttl=10)
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.say_hello, args=('Lionel',), result_ttl=10)
         job.save()
         Job.fetch(job.id, connection=self.testconn)
         self.assertEqual(job.result_ttl, 10)
 
-        job = Job.create(func=say_hello, args=('Lionel',))
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.say_hello, args=('Lionel',))
         job.save()
         Job.fetch(job.id, connection=self.testconn)
         self.assertEqual(job.result_ttl, None)
 
     def test_description_is_persisted(self):
         """Ensure that job's custom description is set properly"""
-        job = Job.create(func=say_hello, args=('Lionel',), description='Say hello!')
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.say_hello, args=('Lionel',), description='Say hello!')
         job.save()
         Job.fetch(job.id, connection=self.testconn)
         self.assertEqual(job.description, 'Say hello!')
 
         # Ensure job description is constructed from function call string
-        job = Job.create(func=say_hello, args=('Lionel',))
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.say_hello, args=('Lionel',))
         job.save()
         Job.fetch(job.id, connection=self.testconn)
         if PY2:
@@ -291,35 +293,30 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
         else:
             self.assertEqual(job.description, "tests.fixtures.say_hello('Lionel')")
 
-    def test_job_access_within_job_function(self):
-        """The current job is accessible within the job function."""
-        # Executing the job function from outside of RQ throws an exception
+    def test_job_access_outside_job_fails(self):
+        """The current job is accessible only within a job context."""
         self.assertIsNone(get_current_job())
 
-        # Executing the job function from within the job works (and in
-        # this case leads to the job ID being returned)
-        job = Job.create(func=access_self)
-        job.save()
-        id = job.perform()
-        self.assertEqual(job.id, id)
-        self.assertEqual(job.func, access_self)
+    def test_job_access_within_job_function(self):
+        """The current job is accessible within the job function."""
+        q = Queue()
+        q.enqueue(fixtures.access_self)  # access_self calls get_current_job() and asserts
+        w = Worker([q])
+        w.work(burst=True)
 
-        # Ensure that get_current_job also works from within synchronous jobs
+    def test_job_access_within_synchronous_job_function(self):
         queue = Queue(async=False)
-        job = queue.enqueue(access_self)
-        id = job.perform()
-        self.assertEqual(job.id, id)
-        self.assertEqual(job.func, access_self)
+        queue.enqueue(fixtures.access_self)
 
     def test_get_result_ttl(self):
         """Getting job result TTL."""
         job_result_ttl = 1
         default_ttl = 2
-        job = Job.create(func=say_hello, result_ttl=job_result_ttl)
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.say_hello, result_ttl=job_result_ttl)
         job.save()
         self.assertEqual(job.get_result_ttl(default_ttl=default_ttl), job_result_ttl)
         self.assertEqual(job.get_result_ttl(), job_result_ttl)
-        job = Job.create(func=say_hello)
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.say_hello)
         job.save()
         self.assertEqual(job.get_result_ttl(default_ttl=default_ttl), default_ttl)
         self.assertEqual(job.get_result_ttl(), None)
@@ -327,16 +324,34 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
     def test_get_job_ttl(self):
         """Getting job TTL."""
         ttl = 1
-        job = Job.create(func=say_hello, ttl=ttl)
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.say_hello, ttl=ttl)
         job.save()
         self.assertEqual(job.get_ttl(), ttl)
-        job = Job.create(func=say_hello)
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.say_hello)
         job.save()
         self.assertEqual(job.get_ttl(), None)
 
+    def test_ttl_via_enqueue(self):
+        ttl = 1
+        queue = Queue(connection=self.testconn)
+        job = queue.enqueue(fixtures.say_hello, ttl=ttl)
+        self.assertEqual(job.get_ttl(), ttl)
+
+    def test_never_expire_during_execution(self):
+        """Test what happens when job expires during execution"""
+        ttl = 1
+        queue = Queue(connection=self.testconn)
+        job = queue.enqueue(fixtures.long_running_job, args=(2,), ttl=ttl)
+        self.assertEqual(job.get_ttl(), ttl)
+        job.save()
+        job.perform()
+        self.assertEqual(job.get_ttl(), -1)
+        self.assertTrue(job.exists(job.id))
+        self.assertEqual(job.result, 'Done sleeping...')
+
     def test_cleanup(self):
         """Test that jobs and results are expired properly."""
-        job = Job.create(func=say_hello)
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.say_hello)
         job.save()
 
         # Jobs with negative TTLs don't expire
@@ -356,7 +371,7 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
         origin = 'some_queue'
         registry = DeferredJobRegistry(origin, self.testconn)
 
-        job = Job.create(func=say_hello, origin=origin)
+        job = Job.create(func=fixtures.say_hello, origin=origin)
         job._dependency_id = 'id'
         job.save()
 
@@ -368,8 +383,8 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
     def test_cancel(self):
         """job.cancel() deletes itself & dependents mapping from Redis."""
         queue = Queue(connection=self.testconn)
-        job = queue.enqueue(say_hello)
-        job2 = Job.create(func=say_hello, depends_on=job)
+        job = queue.enqueue(fixtures.say_hello)
+        job2 = Job.create(func=fixtures.say_hello, depends_on=job)
         job2.register_dependency()
         job.cancel()
         self.assertFalse(self.testconn.exists(job.key))
@@ -380,8 +395,30 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
     def test_create_job_with_id(self):
         """test creating jobs with a custom ID"""
         queue = Queue(connection=self.testconn)
-        job = queue.enqueue(say_hello, job_id="1234")
+        job = queue.enqueue(fixtures.say_hello, job_id="1234")
         self.assertEqual(job.id, "1234")
         job.perform()
 
-        self.assertRaises(TypeError, queue.enqueue, say_hello, job_id=1234)
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, queue.enqueue, fixtures.say_hello, job_id=1234)
+
+    def test_get_call_string_unicode(self):
+        """test call string with unicode keyword arguments"""
+        queue = Queue(connection=self.testconn)
+
+        job = queue.enqueue(fixtures.echo, arg_with_unicode=fixtures.UnicodeStringObject())
+        self.assertIsNotNone(job.get_call_string())
+        job.perform()
+
+    def test_create_job_with_ttl_should_have_ttl_after_enqueued(self):
+        """test creating jobs with ttl and checks if get_jobs returns it properly [issue502]"""
+        queue = Queue(connection=self.testconn)
+        queue.enqueue(fixtures.say_hello, job_id="1234", ttl=10)
+        job = queue.get_jobs()[0]
+        self.assertEqual(job.ttl, 10)
+
+    def test_create_job_with_ttl_should_expire(self):
+        """test if a job created with ttl expires [issue502]"""
+        queue = Queue(connection=self.testconn)
+        queue.enqueue(fixtures.say_hello, job_id="1234", ttl=1)
+        time.sleep(1)
+        self.assertEqual(0, len(queue.get_jobs()))

tests/test_queue.py

@@ -173,6 +173,14 @@ class TestQueue(RQTestCase):
         # ...and assert the queue count when down
         self.assertEquals(q.count, 0)
 
+    def test_dequeue_deleted_jobs(self):
+        """Dequeueing deleted jobs from queues don't blow the stack."""
+        q = Queue()
+        for _ in range(1, 1000):
+            job = q.enqueue(say_hello)
+            job.delete()
+        q.dequeue()
+
     def test_dequeue_instance_method(self):
         """Dequeueing instance method jobs from queues."""
         q = Queue()

tests/test_registry.py

@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
 from rq.compat import as_text
-from rq.job import Job
+from rq.job import Job, JobStatus
 from rq.queue import FailedQueue, Queue
 from rq.utils import current_timestamp
 from rq.worker import Worker
-from rq.registry import (DeferredJobRegistry, FinishedJobRegistry,
-                         StartedJobRegistry)
+from rq.registry import (clean_registries, DeferredJobRegistry,
+                         FinishedJobRegistry, StartedJobRegistry)
 
 from tests import RQTestCase
 from tests.fixtures import div_by_zero, say_hello
@@ -60,15 +60,21 @@ class TestRegistry(RQTestCase):
         """Moving expired jobs to FailedQueue."""
         failed_queue = FailedQueue(connection=self.testconn)
         self.assertTrue(failed_queue.is_empty())
-        self.testconn.zadd(self.registry.key, 2, 'foo')
+
+        queue = Queue(connection=self.testconn)
+        job = queue.enqueue(say_hello)
+
+        self.testconn.zadd(self.registry.key, 2, job.id)
 
         self.registry.cleanup(1)
-        self.assertNotIn('foo', failed_queue.job_ids)
-        self.assertEqual(self.testconn.zscore(self.registry.key, 'foo'), 2)
+        self.assertNotIn(job.id, failed_queue.job_ids)
+        self.assertEqual(self.testconn.zscore(self.registry.key, job.id), 2)
 
         self.registry.cleanup()
-        self.assertIn('foo', failed_queue.job_ids)
-        self.assertEqual(self.testconn.zscore(self.registry.key, 'foo'), None)
+        self.assertIn(job.id, failed_queue.job_ids)
+        self.assertEqual(self.testconn.zscore(self.registry.key, job.id), None)
+        job.refresh()
+        self.assertEqual(job.status, JobStatus.FAILED)
 
     def test_job_execution(self):
         """Job is removed from StartedJobRegistry after execution."""
@@ -101,6 +107,21 @@ class TestRegistry(RQTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(self.registry.count, 2)
         self.assertEqual(len(self.registry), 2)
 
+    def test_clean_registries(self):
+        """clean_registries() cleans Started and Finished job registries."""
+
+        queue = Queue(connection=self.testconn)
+
+        finished_job_registry = FinishedJobRegistry(connection=self.testconn)
+        self.testconn.zadd(finished_job_registry.key, 1, 'foo')
+
+        started_job_registry = StartedJobRegistry(connection=self.testconn)
+        self.testconn.zadd(started_job_registry.key, 1, 'foo')
+
+        clean_registries(queue)
+        self.assertEqual(self.testconn.zcard(finished_job_registry.key), 0)
+        self.assertEqual(self.testconn.zcard(started_job_registry.key), 0)
+
 
 class TestFinishedJobRegistry(RQTestCase):
 

tests/test_worker.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function,
                         unicode_literals)
 
 import os
+from datetime import timedelta
 from time import sleep
 
 from tests import RQTestCase, slow
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ from rq.compat import as_text
 from rq.job import Job, JobStatus
 from rq.registry import StartedJobRegistry
 from rq.suspension import resume, suspend
+from rq.utils import utcnow
 
 
 class CustomJob(Job):
@@ -23,10 +25,35 @@ class CustomJob(Job):
 
 class TestWorker(RQTestCase):
     def test_create_worker(self):
-        """Worker creation."""
-        fooq, barq = Queue('foo'), Queue('bar')
-        w = Worker([fooq, barq])
-        self.assertEquals(w.queues, [fooq, barq])
+        """Worker creation using various inputs."""
+
+        # With single string argument
+        w = Worker('foo')
+        self.assertEquals(w.queues[0].name, 'foo')
+
+        # With list of strings
+        w = Worker(['foo', 'bar'])
+        self.assertEquals(w.queues[0].name, 'foo')
+        self.assertEquals(w.queues[1].name, 'bar')
+
+        # With iterable of strings
+        w = Worker(iter(['foo', 'bar']))
+        self.assertEquals(w.queues[0].name, 'foo')
+        self.assertEquals(w.queues[1].name, 'bar')
+
+        # With single Queue
+        w = Worker(Queue('foo'))
+        self.assertEquals(w.queues[0].name, 'foo')
+
+        # With iterable of Queues
+        w = Worker(iter([Queue('foo'), Queue('bar')]))
+        self.assertEquals(w.queues[0].name, 'foo')
+        self.assertEquals(w.queues[1].name, 'bar')
+
+        # With list of Queues
+        w = Worker([Queue('foo'), Queue('bar')])
+        self.assertEquals(w.queues[0].name, 'foo')
+        self.assertEquals(w.queues[1].name, 'bar')
 
     def test_work_and_quit(self):
         """Worker processes work, then quits."""
@@ -379,3 +406,65 @@ class TestWorker(RQTestCase):
         w3 = Worker([q], name="worker1")
         worker_set = set([w1, w2, w3])
         self.assertEquals(len(worker_set), 2)
+
+    def test_worker_sets_birth(self):
+        """Ensure worker correctly sets worker birth date."""
+        q = Queue()
+        w = Worker([q])
+
+        w.register_birth()
+
+        birth_date = w.birth_date
+        self.assertIsNotNone(birth_date)
+        self.assertEquals(type(birth_date).__name__, 'datetime')
+
+    def test_worker_sets_death(self):
+        """Ensure worker correctly sets worker death date."""
+        q = Queue()
+        w = Worker([q])
+
+        w.register_death()
+
+        death_date = w.death_date
+        self.assertIsNotNone(death_date)
+        self.assertEquals(type(death_date).__name__, 'datetime')
+
+    def test_clean_queue_registries(self):
+        """worker.clean_registries sets last_cleaned_at and cleans registries."""
+        foo_queue = Queue('foo', connection=self.testconn)
+        foo_registry = StartedJobRegistry('foo', connection=self.testconn)
+        self.testconn.zadd(foo_registry.key, 1, 'foo')
+        self.assertEqual(self.testconn.zcard(foo_registry.key), 1)
+
+        bar_queue = Queue('bar', connection=self.testconn)
+        bar_registry = StartedJobRegistry('bar', connection=self.testconn)
+        self.testconn.zadd(bar_registry.key, 1, 'bar')
+        self.assertEqual(self.testconn.zcard(bar_registry.key), 1)
+
+        worker = Worker([foo_queue, bar_queue])
+        self.assertEqual(worker.last_cleaned_at, None)
+        worker.clean_registries()
+        self.assertNotEqual(worker.last_cleaned_at, None)
+        self.assertEqual(self.testconn.zcard(foo_registry.key), 0)
+        self.assertEqual(self.testconn.zcard(bar_registry.key), 0)
+
+    def test_should_run_maintenance_tasks(self):
+        """Workers should run maintenance tasks on startup and every hour."""
+        queue = Queue(connection=self.testconn)
+        worker = Worker(queue)
+        self.assertTrue(worker.should_run_maintenance_tasks)
+
+        worker.last_cleaned_at = utcnow()
+        self.assertFalse(worker.should_run_maintenance_tasks)
+        worker.last_cleaned_at = utcnow() - timedelta(seconds=3700)
+        self.assertTrue(worker.should_run_maintenance_tasks)
+
+    def test_worker_calls_clean_registries(self):
+        """Worker calls clean_registries when run."""
+        queue = Queue(connection=self.testconn)
+        registry = StartedJobRegistry(connection=self.testconn)
+        self.testconn.zadd(registry.key, 1, 'foo')
+
+        worker = Worker(queue, connection=self.testconn)
+        worker.work(burst=True)
+        self.assertEqual(self.testconn.zcard(registry.key), 0)